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let's go after our own energy, natural energy. let's go after this pipeline. we can do a lot. 10,000 jobs directly with this pipeline and 100,000 director. there's a lot of things we can do but we also have to repeal this new health care bill. 21 new taxes, killing the middle class. killing and i hope we get a chance to talk more about that. >> moderator: we have time for another question. it will come from ray hagar and he will direct it to congresswoman shelley berkley. >> congresswoman buerkle, both of your stood tall for veterans or in this campaign that many veterans are concerned about looming defense cuts, and if they come, how do you make sure that nevada's air force base and the air station and the hawthorne army ammo to go which are economic engines stay viable for nevadans? berkley: the, every generation our nation calls upon men and women to go and on the uniform and fight for us. a sacrifice, a great you. they risk their lives. a comeback. we need to make sure that we provide these veterans with benefits that we promised them. that's why i was so
let's go after our own energy, natural energy. let's go after this pipeline. we can do a lot. 10,000 jobs directly with this pipeline and 100,000 director. there's a lot of things we can do but we also have to repeal this new health care bill. 21 new taxes, killing the middle class. killing and i hope we get a chance to talk more about that. >> moderator: we have time for another question. it will come from ray hagar and he will direct it to congresswoman shelley berkley. >>...
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i need help on energy policy. here's the broad framework. let's help to fill in the gaps and make it a national effort, if you will. i think there's huge untapped potential in that area that could speak to bipartisanship. >> i agree with the. i think the biggest policy achievement probably the last 20th minute and welfare reform. 25 years i guess. now, 15 years, 96. that was done by clinton, begrudgingly accepted after modifying its on the other governors have a huge role in that a thing. angler, thompson, underpublicized and a couple democratic governors. so i think you could imagine that, if you can do serious health reform, the republican version of health reform which was medicaid back to the state shouldn't have a very serious, and truthfully even obamnicare will depend on the states. so you do need to have a series conversation with governors who understand the issues. >> and to that end i think governor romney be in a position to at least instinctively understand the culture of governors, how to harness them and energize them. >> othe
i need help on energy policy. here's the broad framework. let's help to fill in the gaps and make it a national effort, if you will. i think there's huge untapped potential in that area that could speak to bipartisanship. >> i agree with the. i think the biggest policy achievement probably the last 20th minute and welfare reform. 25 years i guess. now, 15 years, 96. that was done by clinton, begrudgingly accepted after modifying its on the other governors have a huge role in that a thing....
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will we talk about electoral politics i think perhaps that if you desire to vote and do so, but energy is to be put into social movements which we demand on our own terms rather than putting faith in an elected official and crossing our fingers and hoping to do what we want. specifically for a contemporary example, the students into bed or on strikes for months because there was a proposed tuition hike that they said was completely unacceptable. it tried to make practice illegal. what has come of this? the tuition hike did not go through and the law forbidding process was repealed. i think -- >> would you please ask a specific question. >> i know. my question, i suppose, would be what do you see is the value of social movements for political change. >> thank you. >> thank you very much for that example. i think hopefully folks realize that actually the reason i was asked to testify before rumors of congress was because of my work on such a social movement. there were students on our campus who organized collectively to address this concern with our insurance and who saw that georgetown
will we talk about electoral politics i think perhaps that if you desire to vote and do so, but energy is to be put into social movements which we demand on our own terms rather than putting faith in an elected official and crossing our fingers and hoping to do what we want. specifically for a contemporary example, the students into bed or on strikes for months because there was a proposed tuition hike that they said was completely unacceptable. it tried to make practice illegal. what has come...
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the last time it was this media energy was july, 2010 when it went down. going back to those places who are making those accusations, calling you a readers racist, the speed at which that happened. back in the space now you do have the whole story. >> it feels good to know that first of all i was able to use the same media in a sense to be able to get the story, the right story out. it feels -- i can't explain how great it feels to be able to sit here to hear the actors -- my goodness i don't know if you saw me. i was crying a little. it's amazing. i didn't ever think -- i made the decision years ago that i didn't want people to forget my father and what he meant to us. i had no idea that i would be able to tell the story in this way. it feels great. >> what is so beautiful about this book? i feel like it's more than a book. it's a living history. it's like a love letter to choices, and it reminds us that without the feelings, the facts don't come be enough of what a history has been, and that is brutal as the history of african-american struggle for human
the last time it was this media energy was july, 2010 when it went down. going back to those places who are making those accusations, calling you a readers racist, the speed at which that happened. back in the space now you do have the whole story. >> it feels good to know that first of all i was able to use the same media in a sense to be able to get the story, the right story out. it feels -- i can't explain how great it feels to be able to sit here to hear the actors -- my goodness i...
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in fact convinced the first is energy it takes an inordinate amount of energy beyond what you ever expected. 14, 15, 16 hour days they will never make it and i know it doesn't feel like it on saturday morning. that's because you don't go to bed until 5 a.m.. if i don't get to bed until 5 a.m. i don't wake up until monday. the second thing is creativity. honest to goodness this is something you see a 6-year-old playing and all of a sudden they say i am of dinosaur but they believe it in that moment in their mind so radically change the status quo. they have no attachment to the status quo. alternate worlds and possibilities are real to them and that's something that we lose and as we get older and sure you've that people in your work. there are two things they are not allowed to say to me. they can't say we've always done it this way and everyone else does it this way. they mean nothing to me because there is no attachment to the way that we've always done it. that sort of creativity to give an example of a couple years ago i sold my car because it and if the cow we call this conscious outsi
in fact convinced the first is energy it takes an inordinate amount of energy beyond what you ever expected. 14, 15, 16 hour days they will never make it and i know it doesn't feel like it on saturday morning. that's because you don't go to bed until 5 a.m.. if i don't get to bed until 5 a.m. i don't wake up until monday. the second thing is creativity. honest to goodness this is something you see a 6-year-old playing and all of a sudden they say i am of dinosaur but they believe it in that...
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department of energy substation. but instead he ended up here, chained to the side door of a nonprofit rural aid organization. he got the wrong building but at least he had the right message. your sign said reduce deficits and you thoughted no blood for oil. and you were chained to a rural health organization. what's your message? >> well, -- >> so wrong building, unclear message, but at least jody reached the people. >> how long before someone noticed you? >> 18 hours. [laughter] >> why do you think people ignored you? >> i think people don't like to think about the troubles in the international spectrum right now. >> not because you were below sidewalk level? jody brought me to the place where, for some reason, no one saw him. you were chained where? >> just to this door handle here. >> okay. and was this sign here when you -- >> actually it was. >> did you read this sign? >> after i locked to the door handle. >> yes, after he locked to the door handle. but every good protester has a contingency plan. >> when you f
department of energy substation. but instead he ended up here, chained to the side door of a nonprofit rural aid organization. he got the wrong building but at least he had the right message. your sign said reduce deficits and you thoughted no blood for oil. and you were chained to a rural health organization. what's your message? >> well, -- >> so wrong building, unclear message, but at least jody reached the people. >> how long before someone noticed you? >> 18 hours....
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it creates jobs, a lot of energy, it done some wonderful things. nobody disputes that. it's not being held back by government regulations. you can argue right now that a tremendous amount of the investment is going abroad to tap those middle classes and other countries. when in fact, more of that investment should be here. we make the point that we think the government needs to make more of an investment. it's a dire situation. it's a crisis. the greatest piece time public works program in the history occurred on the watch of the republican president dwight eisenhower. it should not be a partisan issue. >> host: all right. at the end of the book you make some suggestions, john, you suggest we revise the tax code, you suggest that there be real free trade in terms of imposing some protections for the american workers what's being used in china, japan and elsewhere. and you say that there should be investment in u.s. infrastructure a stimulus plan. could you two get elected dogcatcher? [laughter] >> guest: probably not. but, you know, the problem with -- actually -- >> ho
it creates jobs, a lot of energy, it done some wonderful things. nobody disputes that. it's not being held back by government regulations. you can argue right now that a tremendous amount of the investment is going abroad to tap those middle classes and other countries. when in fact, more of that investment should be here. we make the point that we think the government needs to make more of an investment. it's a dire situation. it's a crisis. the greatest piece time public works program in the...